Building constructed of vertical supports, longitudinal base element, and panel members

Claim 1

Building construction comprising a plurality of spaced upright support members each having a base and an upright column including a plurality of continuous upright flanges radiating from a common junction located centrally of the column, each of said flanges having a plurality of bores therethrough spaced along said flange, and an elongated connecting panel connecting two of said upright supporting members having bifurcated brackets projecting longitudinally from opposite panel ends, the furcations of each said bracket embracing a flange of one of said upright columns and including cooperating bores therethrough alignable with a column flange bore, and pin means connecting said embraced column flange and said embracing bifurcated bracket and further comprising a wall component having a plurality of parallel discrete sheet layers adhesively bonded to provide a composite panel, an interior layer of said panel being of uniformly smaller dimension than adjacent layers to provide a perimetric panel groove, a hollow tube of rectangular cross section received in said perimetric groove and perimetrically coextensive therewith, the elongated connecting panel having first and second panel-supporting ledges disposed in parallel planes but perpendicularly offset, a perpendicular wall connected to said first ledge and forming a salient angel therewith and to said second ledge and forming a reentrant angle therewith, a groove in said perpendicular wall adjacent to said reentrant angle, a split tube snugly received in and extending along said groove, said split tube and said groove having complemental cross sections, first hook means engageable in said split tube and projecting therefrom, second hook means engageable to embrace said panel Perimetric tube, link means connecting said first and second hook means for securing a wall panel supported by one of said panel-supporting ledges to said elongated connecting panel, said wall panel including two composite plates each having a magnesite mortar bonded wood chip sheet layer, a compacted rook wool sheet layer, and an asbestos cement sheet layer, said three layers being adhesively bonded together, said composite plates being disposed in parallel spaced relationship with their asbestos cement sheet layers in adjacent relationship defining a hollow chamber therebetween, and a rock wool layer suspended in said chamber disposed parallel to, but spaced from, said composite plates.